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“Life in the Slow Lane”
Welcome to the Internet in Rural America
“… my download speed is crawling along at 0.61 Mbps. Five hours later, at 4:21 p.m., it's only 2.12 Mbps.”
“ By the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) latest estimate, which uses figures from 2016, 24 million Americans, or 7.7 percent of the population, are going without internet.”
“In rural areas it's far worse. Roughly 39 percent of rural Americans lack access to high-speed broadband internet, compared with just 4 percent of urban Americans, according to the FCC"
"THE SOLUTION"
Ruralink's National Rollout
ARK Multicasting Ruralinks's partner has 283 TV broadcast licenses that cover over 100 million people in the USA.
The initial Ruralink installations will focus on ARK 's rural markets covering over 40 million people.
Rift Valley Resources Corp., through its subsidiary, Ruralink Wireless, has begun construction of its wireless broadband network located in Crockett, Tex., the first of a proposed 130 regional rural networks throughout the United States, representing a market of over 44 million people. Multicasting Link